Bitcoin's recent flash crashes — the result of both technical and malicious failures — have only added to the skepticism.

Thursday morning, we talked with Bitpay.com's founder, Tony Gallippi to get his take.

Speaking to us by phone from his Atlanta office (which was outfitted using Bitcoin-bought supplies, naturally), Gallippi essentially agrees with Salmon, calling Bitcoin an "asset class."

As long as its value keeps rising, he said, it will come to be viewed like stocks or real estate.

[If it gets up to] $500 and $1,000, it's now usable for people who want to trade in and out of real estate, gold positions, stocks. Someone moving to New Zealand wondering how to get $5 million in gold ... with Bitcoin, they can cash it back out.